Wrong Address....Verdy 3 - 0 Gifu

Shit Postman

The stats now read five games, five wins, 18 goals scored and probably the Worst Goal of the Season bagged by Maranhao this weekend. Gifu were there for the taking and duly showed exactly why they are bottom of the league with only two wins in fifteen attempts.

With Kawano still missing, Verdy lined up with Kikuoka on the right, Maranhao at the top of the diamond with Iio moving to the left. Takuma Abe was again given the lone striker role and celebrated his signing of a new contract this week with another goal and solid performance.

Verdy opened the game and almost immediately had the Gifu goal under pressure, with a screwed shot from Wada  and Maranhao missing the first of his THREE misses when one-on-one with the keeper. The stats will say that Maranhao scored in this one but the real news is what he didn`t do. Before he finally scored; three times he was clean through on the keeper and he missed all three. 

The first goal came on 13 minutes with Mori setting Iio free down the right with a superb weighted pass, Iio slid it across the six yard box for an easy finish for Abe.  Iio was to go off just 10 minutes later with what looked like hamstring trouble and will probably be out for a week or two. Fukuda came in and will hoping to get the nod next time out.  Ten minutes before the break Maranhao missed his second chance when through, again hitting his shot straight at the keeper and sailing his rebound over the bar. The  scene was again incredibly replayed just before the halftime whistle. Again, he was through but this time shot wide. He knew he was having a `mare as he slammed the turf in complete frustration. Gifu themselves had their best effort of the first half just after with Arai sending a speculator into the crowd from outside the box.

Maranhao was to eventually get his goal in comical circumstances. Tsuchiya played a ball to Kikuoka who in turn released Maranhao in the box. He went down in a heap looking for the penalty. The ref was unmoved so he stood up again and simply tapped the ball past the keeper. An absolutely crappy goal for a player who is having an absolute nightmare in front of goal. Maranhao is having big problems as he isn`t missing half chances; his problem is that he`s missing absolute sitters. The chances last night were gift wrapped, labelled and addressed correctly with guaranteed delivery to the back of the net. Maranhao unfortunately had the wrong house, couldn`t read the writing and dropped all of them into dirty puddles. Kikuoka wrapped the game up on an up and over free kick from the edge of the box after Abe was brought down in the 83rd minute, Yuki Kobayashi with a nice dummy to distract the keeper. Verdy were on top for 90 minutes, Gifu rarely able to pressure Shibasaki. 

Tokushima Vortis up next and a far stiffer test than anything we have faced in the last five. Let`s batter them!! Onwards and Summer Holidaywards The Boys March On!!